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Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Tonight we have yet again been shown how the Mullingar accord is a deal for grabbing power, not a vision for realising Ireland's future. It is a squalid deal that is rotten before it is ripe. We will continue to work, while the Opposition continues to complain. Next year the people will decide who has the better record, the better plans and the best vision to build on the remarkable and...

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Hear, hear.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It has priority in the Department, which is trying to have it ready for the autumn.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Yes. I hope to publish it then.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I cannot recall the name at this stage but the Department is working on it.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not know the title of the legislation. It will implement the all-party committee report.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Obviously what prompts this question is that Deputy Sargent has seen yesterday that 200 affordable houses were handed over for between €145,000 and €195,000.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: But it is a significant development. Deputy Sargent should not see everything as a Z grade.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: This was a considerable achievement, that——

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: ——yesterday almost 200 people got houses for €145,000 under the affordable housing initiative. We want to see far more of that. I ask Deputy Sargent and his colleagues and every other party to help local authorities, which in so many areas of the city want to build social and affordable housing——

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: ——and are being blocked by Members of this House.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Members are publicly used to block it. It is sad that Deputies come in here asking for affordable housing and then use their efforts outside to block them in many parts, including the parts of the city that Deputy Sargent mentioned.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Government will press on with the legislation. We hope to have it ready shortly. I hope we will be able to move to deal with this issue.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It is almost impossible, a Cheann Comhairle. They all ask questions every time one answers them.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It is proposed to take No. 18, Institutes of Technology Bill 2006 — Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 19, Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad] — Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 1 — Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad] — Second and Subsequent Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1)...

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: On the Dalton report, I have tried to have a number of these reports completed and published in this session. The issues of the Committee of Public Accounts are related but that is a matter for the committee. The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill is on Committee Stage in the Seanad so obviously the Dáil will not debate it until the autumn.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I mentioned this in the course of questions today. When the Government met this morning it had not received the report. The report was given to the Department as a courtesy but no member of Government has seen it. We must read and discuss the report next week.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That is what I said.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: There is no point in me saying anything if Deputy McManus always says I never said it. The commission forwarded a copy of its final draft report to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government last week. The nature of the commission's work required it to engage with that Department and the companies which promoted the voting system. Several times during the course of its...

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That is correct.